What do you say, Lord?

We must develop a trust in these days. We follow a God who can make us feel very insecure, if we need to know continually every option and outcome. All around us are well meaning people with good ideas and ways of seeing. However...

In Hosea 2 it talks of God’s relationship to His people at the time. His people had been running after different ideas and options, which very often indicated their insecurity. They pursued alternative ways of achieving the things that God had suggested . This was boldly described as similar to the relationship of a man to his wife. She was being unfaithful. This study goes on to talk of how God’s people would be stopped from doing this by being brought to a place where she had no alternatives... She was to be STRIPPED and EXPOSED. Graphic language here but describing our condition in this world. In Genesis 3 the first people sinned and the consequence was that they hid and felt naked. So, in this way we feel exposed at the root of our being.

This is a tough place to be. But in the end it draws us back to a safe place. The secure place of being set on the rock that is the Lord. When storms occur in life we need a rock.

So it is really a case of coming to the end of our plans and options, in as much a they limit the Lord.  Anxiety and fear can result from a continual need to control.

God WANTS US TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE... He wants us to be delighted and excited. He wants to surprise us.

But it means working with His specification. Submitting to His ways. 1Peter 5, talks of young mens pride. We are young in the ways of the Lord. HIS HAND IS MIGHTY AND WEIGHTY. We get into the position of embarking on adventure by working with His suggestions... in the meantime.

The ideal then is to say like Peter... WE HAVE FISHED ALL MIGHT BUT AT YOUE WORD WE WILL GO AGAIN... We will try again not knowing the outcome, because we trust you and know that you have good things for us. You have plans. You have HOPE.

So we just turn up and invite the Holy Spirit... What does God want to do. Who does He want to speak to. Who has been crying out and THE LORD HEARS THE CRIES. How does he want to do things.  What are His parameters. What is His order.

But surely we must have some STRUCTURE... what does that really mean. But surely we must work with some king of plan... Over the years god has trained us and given us specific things to work with in our characters. We can overcome negativity and develop Hope as well as respect and Honour each other. We know not to point the finger.

God has heard our cries. He knows our needs. He knows where we hurt. He made us so surely He knows how to put us back together. He is loving and kind and gentle. He knows what needs to be done... HE IS WITH YOU, MIGHTY WARRIOR... GO IN THE STRENGTH OF HIS MIGHT.

Daniel Chuter